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Other examples of traps here are various kinds of limiting beliefs. When you believe that you can't do something, that can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and it can become true just by virtue of the fact that you believe it, even though it may not be an actual reflection of your limitations. The reality is that you don't really know what you're capable of until you try really hard at it. Or something like telling yourself that it's too late to start. You know, it's too late to colearn art, it's too late to pursue my dream career. Then that can become true for you and then that becomes a trap. Another trap that's very interesting is not taking people's self-reports of their experiences seriously. I see a lot of atheists and scientists doing this, like for example when people give them reports of their psychedelic trips or their spiritual and mystical experiences. What these people do is they just dismiss it as like, "Oh, it's just fantasy, it's hallucination, it's just delusions." That's a mistake, that kind of attitude is a mistake. Really what you want to do there is, of course, people can be deluded about all sorts of mystical stuff, but you want to in general be more sensitive to how people report their direct experiences of reality because what you'll discover if you take that stuff seriously is that people simply experience reality quite differently from each other and from you. That's a big revelation because if you assume everybody experiences reality as you do, as the scientific materialist assumes reality is experienced, that's a mistake, that's a big epistemological mistake and it prevents you from understanding reality at the deeper levels. And then that's why you're so puzzled by all this mystical religious spiritual phenomena that people keep talking about. Yeah, of course you're puzzled, it's not because they're deluded, it's because you have a very limited conception of how conscious experience works. And then confirmation bias comes into play here and then that gets you stuck in your materialist paradigm. Another trap is repressing your problems with people and then acting passive-aggressively towards them. This is the passive-aggressive trap. Another one is not communicating in relationships. To have proper relationships, you need to communicate, exactly at those times when you don't feel like communicating. Another trap is hearing what you want to hear rather than listening carefully to what is being said. Another trap is calling people crazy, deluded, and evil rather than seeking to genuinely understand their perspective. It's so easy to dismiss a perspective by just calling somebody crazy. Another trap is judgment. Judgment, judgment, judgment. Judgment is just like, honestly, the more I do this work, the more I see that a giant chunk of the problems of my mind are just me judging reality and judging other people. And it's so hard to stop doing that because it's just wired into our egos. And then that brings me to the next point, which is the trap of morality. Morality is a huge can of worms, and I'm going to have a new episode coming up on that as well. So yeah, morality is just a trap. The whole field of morality is a trap, and then especially, I want to point out this kind of feeling of moral righteousness and indignation that we get. That's a trap. That feeling, whenever it comes up, that's a trap. And the kind of moralizing you do to others, the demonizing of others, the kind of virtue signaling that you do, whether it's politically based or not, spiritually based, all of this is a giant trap. Crusading, the Lesser Jihad, this kind of stuff, moral crusading, big traps, really. It's a kind of projection. Another trap is thinking that you're good when actually you're evil. I want to do a whole episode in the future, which is something along the lines of "you're not good, you're evil." I had this epiphany myself lately. You know, I've thought of myself as a good person for my whole life and then realized recently, just during my long extended break, I realized all the evil things that I've done throughout my life and just how big of a fantasy this whole idea of me being a good person really is. Another trap is trying to save the world, having this kind of Messiah complex where it's like, "I have to save the world, and if I don't do it, nobody else will, and the world will end in an apocalypse." This is usually a delusion. Another trap is doing armchair philosophy, speculating, and mental masturbation. Another one is always taking the centrist view, taking the midpoint of any controversy, splitting the difference between every perspective, as though the truth is somewhere down the middle. That's not how truth works. If you have a pro-slavery position and an anti-slavery position, the truth is not down the middle. Breaking your integrity is a trap, and there's a lot of things in life that will lure you away from your integrity and make you think like, "Oh, well, my integrity is not that important because I can get some money, some sex, some this, some that, a promotion, some fame, some clicks on YouTube." Excessive empathy is a trap. This is a trap that stay-AG, green Progressive leftists fall into. Empathy, of course, is important, and a lack of empathy is its own kind of trap that the right wing falls into. But the left wing falls into excessive empathy, and this can lead to problems. Thinking that everyone experiences reality as you do, that's a trap. Overgeneralizing and projecting your experiences onto others, that's a trap. Assuming that others have the same personality type as you, strengths as you, and capabilities as you, this kind of simplistic idea that, "Well, if one man can do it, then every man can do it, you can do it too." No, that's just not true. A lot of things that great men and women in history have done cannot be repeated precisely because they were unique genetically, they had unique personalities, unique strengths, unique capabilities. That's what the world's geniuses, if they're true geniuses, are, a kind of Albert Einstein, you know, the world's greatest mathematicians, logicians, physicists, musicians, this kind of stuff. An ordinary person doesn't have these capabilities, the visualization capabilities of a Nikola Tesla, an ordinary human doesn't have the ability for Nikola Tesla to visualize an entire electric motor in his own mind and prototype it in his mind before he even built it and then have it actually built the way that he prototyped it in his mind. That's beyond the capabilities of a normal human being, that's like alien levels of intelligence that is, which is why he's revered as one of the greats of human history because he wasn't normal. And you'll also find that that's true of many spiritual teachers, is that they're exceptionally gifted, they're not just ordinary people who meditated a lot, they're way beyond that. And that leads us to the next trap, which is assuming that everybody has the same spiritual giftedness or level of talent. That's not true at all.

These three words are seemingly quite unrelated in western and eastern terms, but some magic of words has made that they actually have the same underlying concept. In west, the terms are collective and intellectual - intellectuality is the way to think collectively, intellectuals share their thoughts and create something bigger out of it. In east, the same terms are individual and introspective. Meanings of the three words: Meditation. In West, the meditations of Descartes and similar ones, like the ones of Marcus Aurelius, are made to create the philosophical scrunity about the world as the science sees it - the shared, collective world. It starts from "I am", and then proves the existence of the world and the people - when you are philosophical, skeptical about all this, you have reached somewhere with your meditations. The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell, is also about the philosophical questions about the world you need to solve to be skeptical and thus, scientific. The common, shared mind is created through those meditations, where you contemplate on intellectual ideas your intellectual mind can reach. The intellectual knowledge is shared. In the Buddhist meditation, you contemplate on your inner world, your mind, and reach the same kind of skeptical attitude about this. The inner and outer world, both solve the whole - as you know your mind, you know also about the objects your mind can see. Enlightenment. In west, this is collective. Emergence of Science, Democracy and other such things are the way out of Dark Ages, and those processes are called enlightenment in western terms. This is where the people come out of darkness. In East, the enlightenment is personal, it happens to each person individually. Superpower. In west, superpowers appear from the collective good karma reached by civilization. Superpowers - for example, when I was born, Soviet Union and United States were called superpowers - appear when the collective work has purified the karma of the people. When the architecture and the common habits are such that people can not easily create bad karma, and when the tax system is making every person to give some money to the poor, the effect of the good karma appear. It's not personal, thus the enlightened being is hidden somewhere in the government corridors, but it's not the government itself - it has connections to aliens, psychic powers etc. Government of US told that they are fighting to get some access to alien data - so the superpower must be a different entity of any person; it appears somewhere in the collective and identifies with all the people together, but it has a typical signature of enlightened person - as the law makers fight for people to be civilized, an individual don't do much to this, but they cannot exercise bad karma so much, as it's effects are neutralized - good karma appears. In east, similar things like connections with aliens and psychic powers appear personally. I think the superpowers are all friends. The governmental superpower is very understanding to the enlightened person, even when the government is not - it can understand the "magic", which comes out of good karma. The miracles come from good karma - it's the basic essential, which gives rise to all the siddhis. I don't think the natural laws are broken, rather they are made stronger - but we see there is a lots of progress achieved from good karma in all the fields; one superpower of a civilization is advanced technology, which inevitably appears where the masses have good karma. They cannot easily exercise the effects of the bad karma. Christianity and the Advanced Civilization are western collective exercises of karma. There is the saviour - either the Church or the God is going to save your soul, or the government is saving you, like educating and protecting from evil; evil itself gets better karma as it's being kept under some control and supervision. The general conception is that people, collectively, are reaching the state, where the individuals are being saved from their bad deeds, and they have much more than would come from their personal efforts. You can say a person is lost in this, and this is bad - but also, they are saved from many things. This is the yin aspect of a person, and the yang aspect of the government. In east, nobody is going to save you, but you have to work up your karma and it's directly having the effects on your life. Here, the state is having somewhat a yin aspect, and the person is being yang about their lives. In China, you can see the buddhism is somewhat mixed with the civilization and they have a different authority - you can see the buddhists are learning the enlightenment in west, for example they are interested in scientific results about their work. From the history of war you can see buddhist countries have been conquered and civilized by the west. I think the true buddhist has not been under attack, but the pagans, which they could not civilize, were civilized by others. This creates some constant feeling in eastern buddhists, who show a lots of respect towards the powers of civilization and science. They cannot win this, unless the science and civilization are corrupt - but the west, also, learns a lot from the buddhist teachings of the personal level, as the personal level of the west was quite underdeveloped. The christ wanted to bring heaven to earth, where all the people get something, whereas the buddhist help people on earth closer to heaven - in first case, you live in a grand reality and unify this under a greater good; in second one, you make yourself a person from who the world can benefit more. Real power is connecting the yin and yang into one unified power. The intellectual knowledge, which leads to science, needs to be connected with the individual wisdom, which leads to personal enlightenment. The power of politicial and financial theories and the systems of many people they create need to be unified with individual goodness. I call the western superpower the "reason". It's not going to better place by personal journey, but it's going to worse places and making them better, it's trying to find solutions outside this personal sphere. The spiritual people in west, lately I see the enlightened people, indigo children and others, who are seeking personal enlightenment or achieved some level or gene, they are very often left on streets, losing jobs, unable to marry and get children, or they are considered insane or mad, or with some psychological problem of community living - they have a lots of personal problems, which are supposed to be solved collectively. The personal enlightenment makes you a better person for everybody, for the collective - but you are not specifically a collective thinker, who "saves" others and guides them to better life with authority; you only want them to understand the reasons and work on themselves. The government and the church make karma of people better not by them understanding this, but by analyzing the actual process of karmic consequence and controlling the environment so that the consequence is better. Thus, the person cannot achieve enlightenment, but the collective soul can - the person does not identify with his better karma, but it appears higher than the sight of the persons, as a collective evidence we can see when we talk about governments having contacts with aliens and entities, which create psychic powers. We can see some grand power is protecting a civilized person quite entirely from witchcraft - they can live in safe, material surroundings. The witchcraft actually becomes a problem for a person out of civilization. The reason is another superpower of the mind, and it's needed by any person with psychic powers as well. They can meditate on better politics, economics etc., but when they do not reason, the normal material causes and effects block their work; you don't win much when you just create good feelings in people of business and politics, or the nation - you have to create good and rational feelings, and those people need to work together. The material process is very real and I do not think that the spiritual process actually breaks the material law - as with any science, spiritual people can reach some effects and consequences, which are not covered easily by theories of physics, economics or politics, but any specialized field does this - it finds something specific not covered by general theories very directly. Once the spiritual people have found this anomaly, it's fixed - there is no effect of psychic powers, which constantly breaks the natural laws and does not become a part of developed science; in terms of modern psychology and quantum theory, the effects of magic and spirituality, or enlightenment, are not exactly outside of theory. With models of enlightenment and spirituality you can reach effective and easy to work with models to make yourself more effective - but when the theories of good karma are applied to scientific work and the material processes, they also invent new technologies, which were not there, and the material knowledge of the world gets "broken". I don't think the reason behind any spiritual theory is to find anomalies in physics, economy and politics - those will not become miraculously different, but still go with their slow progress and definitely develop the sciences further, with the help of spiritual people or without. This is the thinking of naive atheist, who thinks that their science would be debunked in case some spiritual person proves their claims - the usual claims are quite normally expected from science. People get more sensitive, effective, and calm, and they definitely see the life appearing richer than before - this is the way up, but it's not breaking the things we know as science. By this, spiritual theories goind with resonance with science - to be more intellectual, spiritual people need to talk about what they really do in shared, material world; for example, more sensitive girl can be more effective in social relations and they can prove this efficiency by it's material effects; it's stupid to claim that they break the natural law - a good psychologist with good attitude towards people and work would break the same "laws", which appear in the lives of the worse people. A model of mind, which is directed to pure results in something - definitely it leads to better results and sometimes, you can not easily understand, how the science would reach those results. But what is really in effect, is the good karma and the logic, and it creates similar theories and results everywhere - in physical and in mental aspects of the world. What we can all communicate, is the material process, and we can see the material laws are very clearly followed when we are efficient - from having psychic powers, you reach some extra points in efficiency, but to be a social person and enlightened in western way, you need to explain those extra points based on evidence, and you don't need to talk spiritually - with material theories you also reach the claims that you "are in the heaven", when you have much money etc., and in normal communication, you should hide your psychic talk into these normal parts of the sentences nobody would notice much. Otherwise, you are really insisting people that you are doing anomalies in the theory - when a meditative enlightened person meditates on the well-being of the nation, they get some extra feeling and energy finally, you resonate a better thing when you communicate with them, but the natural causes and effects are still there, you cannot explain their better results without considering these. So, really, you need all this collective effort and IQ to do this.

Other examples of traps here are various kinds of limiting beliefs. When you believe that you can't do something, that can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and it can become true just by virtue of the fact that you believe it, even though it may not be an actual reflection of your limitations. The reality is that you don't really know what you're capable of until you try really hard at it. Or something like telling yourself that it's too late to start. You know, it's too late to colearn art, it's too late to pursue my dream career. Then that can become true for you and then that becomes a trap. Another trap that's very interesting is not taking people's self-reports of their experiences seriously. I see a lot of atheists and scientists doing this, like for example when people give them reports of their psychedelic trips or their spiritual and mystical experiences. What these people do is they just dismiss it as like, "Oh, it's just fantasy, it's hallucination, it's just delusions." That's a mistake, that kind of attitude is a mistake. Really what you want to do there is, of course, people can be deluded about all sorts of mystical stuff, but you want to in general be more sensitive to how people report their direct experiences of reality because what you'll discover if you take that stuff seriously is that people simply experience reality quite differently from each other and from you. That's a big revelation because if you assume everybody experiences reality as you do, as the scientific materialist assumes reality is experienced, that's a mistake, that's a big epistemological mistake and it prevents you from understanding reality at the deeper levels. And then that's why you're so puzzled by all this mystical religious spiritual phenomena that people keep talking about. Yeah, of course you're puzzled, it's not because they're deluded, it's because you have a very limited conception of how conscious experience works. And then confirmation bias comes into play here and then that gets you stuck in your materialist paradigm. Another trap is repressing your problems with people and then acting passive-aggressively towards them. This is the passive-aggressive trap. Another one is not communicating in relationships. To have proper relationships, you need to communicate, exactly at those times when you don't feel like communicating. Another trap is hearing what you want to hear rather than listening carefully to what is being said. Another trap is calling people crazy, deluded, and evil rather than seeking to genuinely understand their perspective. It's so easy to dismiss a perspective by just calling somebody crazy. Another trap is judgment. Judgment, judgment, judgment. Judgment is just like, honestly, the more I do this work, the more I see that a giant chunk of the problems of my mind are just me judging reality and judging other people. And it's so hard to stop doing that because it's just wired into our egos. And then that brings me to the next point, which is the trap of morality. Morality is a huge can of worms, and I'm going to have a new episode coming up on that as well. So yeah, morality is just a trap. The whole field of morality is a trap, and then especially, I want to point out this kind of feeling of moral righteousness and indignation that we get. That's a trap. That feeling, whenever it comes up, that's a trap. And the kind of moralizing you do to others, the demonizing of others, the kind of virtue signaling that you do, whether it's politically based or not, spiritually based, all of this is a giant trap. Crusading, the Lesser Jihad, this kind of stuff, moral crusading, big traps, really. It's a kind of projection. Another trap is thinking that you're good when actually you're evil. I want to do a whole episode in the future, which is something along the lines of "you're not good, you're evil." I had this epiphany myself lately. You know, I've thought of myself as a good person for my whole life and then realized recently, just during my long extended break, I realized all the evil things that I've done throughout my life and just how big of a fantasy this whole idea of me being a good person really is. Another trap is trying to save the world, having this kind of Messiah complex where it's like, "I have to save the world, and if I don't do it, nobody else will, and the world will end in an apocalypse." This is usually a delusion. Another trap is doing armchair philosophy, speculating, and mental masturbation. Another one is always taking the centrist view, taking the midpoint of any controversy, splitting the difference between every perspective, as though the truth is somewhere down the middle. That's not how truth works. If you have a pro-slavery position and an anti-slavery position, the truth is not down the middle. Breaking your integrity is a trap, and there's a lot of things in life that will lure you away from your integrity and make you think like, "Oh, well, my integrity is not that important because I can get some money, some sex, some this, some that, a promotion, some fame, some clicks on YouTube." Excessive empathy is a trap. This is a trap that stay-AG, green Progressive leftists fall into. Empathy, of course, is important, and a lack of empathy is its own kind of trap that the right wing falls into. But the left wing falls into excessive empathy, and this can lead to problems. Thinking that everyone experiences reality as you do, that's a trap. Overgeneralizing and projecting your experiences onto others, that's a trap. Assuming that others have the same personality type as you, strengths as you, and capabilities as you, this kind of simplistic idea that, "Well, if one man can do it, then every man can do it, you can do it too." No, that's just not true. A lot of things that great men and women in history have done cannot be repeated precisely because they were unique genetically, they had unique personalities, unique strengths, unique capabilities. That's what the world's geniuses, if they're true geniuses, are, a kind of Albert Einstein, you know, the world's greatest mathematicians, logicians, physicists, musicians, this kind of stuff. An ordinary person doesn't have these capabilities, the visualization capabilities of a Nikola Tesla, an ordinary human doesn't have the ability for Nikola Tesla to visualize an entire electric motor in his own mind and prototype it in his mind before he even built it and then have it actually built the way that he prototyped it in his mind. That's beyond the capabilities of a normal human being, that's like alien levels of intelligence that is, which is why he's revered as one of the greats of human history because he wasn't normal. And you'll also find that that's true of many spiritual teachers, is that they're exceptionally gifted, they're not just ordinary people who meditated a lot, they're way beyond that. And that leads us to the next trap, which is assuming that everybody has the same spiritual giftedness or level of talent. That's not true at all.

I would go learn from that Crocodile. He must have Alien Mouse Knowledge after consuming your brain. Alien Crocodile Knowledge* —— That reference to Crocodiles and Florida is so much more funnier now that I watched the newest video ahahah. Living in Finland so haven’t heard of crocodiles regularly eating grannies and dogs in Florida, lolol.

Exploring different types of consciousness and the differences between them (Alien, AI, insanity, enlightenment, etc)

Alien Consciousness

It wasn't so much about shutting down the site, but more so about an unexpected death. Ghost-Leo ain't coming to tell anything And besides, death is still death, and would have impacted me emotionally, since I am already in a heavy place. Getting the announcement and knowing you are safe and sound would have released me at least of that burden. But I am starting to sound selfish here. It's not just all about me, me, me. The funny thing is, I was more worried / convinced something bad had actually happened to you, precisely because you could have at least made an ig story announcement, and you didn't. If you Actually didn't have anywhere to announce for your deepest fans, then it wouldn't have been nearly as worrisome that you were actually eaten by a Crocodile. Don't get me wrong here, I am not blaming you. Just constructive feedback from love. I would go learn from that Crocodile. He must have Alien Mouse Knowledge after consuming your brain.

@Nemra oh cool they are pretty good . I like the alien on very important people the most

Human are monkey and alien combined. Aliens are god they created a simulation on earth. You are on alien spaceship in a human video game. You aren't here in a human you are witnessing the life of a human from far away. Its a new kind of genius. God is nothing it has no part in the universe its hands off it is the universe and does things through things not as them as a the game itself.

Imagine Trump talking about no-self, vedanta and alien consciousness. That's what hyper-mind can achieve.

Imagine how differently a dog experiences life with a sense of smell 100 million times better than humans, and a 3 times better hearing. Imagine having the thermal vision of a snake, electroreceptors of a shark, echolocation of bats and the magnetic sense of birds. Imagine seeing the full electromagnetic spectrum , not just " visible light" Now imagine being to clearly smell the quantity and difference in atoms in the entire world at once. What kind of experience would that be? Imagine having such a clear imagination that you could experience a full rich and detailed imaginary life at will. Imagine having the capacity to operate without the boundaries of time , space and physics Imagine what the life experience would be as an trans-alive being, beyond a physical body Imagine what the life experience of a DMT Machine - elf would be What would be the life experience of some being so complex that even a machine elf can't comprehend? Imagine the experience of an entire dimension at once, throughout all of space time . Now multiply that for infinity for infinite dimensions, and whatever is beyond our concept of dimensions What is so complex that even an alien hyper - mind can't grasp?

I think there can be done more than guesswork unless you want to take the position where you say that cognitive science is purely just a guess-work and not grounded in anything tangible. I agree that we have a lot more to learn, but I disagree that cognitive science can't be grounded. Will that mean that we will have a perfect theory that will be able to make sense of alien minds in a perfect manner? Probably not, but it won't mean either that we will have 0 clue about them. The more we can study them , the better grip we can get on whats going on.

@zurew Nice looking modal and good visuals. Main issue with this hyper alien mind is literally @Leo Gura and maybe very few people are literal pioneers, and when someone's a pioneer there's only so much knowledge base and conceptions to go off of. It's actually pretty dangerous work as there's just so little to base precautions or protections, you just are literally like an explorer on some alien planet, literally that dangerous and exciting. Another big issue with alien mind is we're still mostly extremely selfish to just collectively go hyper mind. 100% willing to bet if you got telekinesis, you'll use that selfishly. Horny teen with telepathy and telekinesis is just a recipe for chaos.

@Davino Well IMO this hyper mind is just a hyped mind, yes pretty different but there's little practical value of a hyper mind. Realistically nobody here or in a group is going to have alien minds in our lifetime, maybe neural link but nothing that is mass psychedelic, which is fine and good because I don't want to get into a car accident just because I suddenly have alien mind.

I love these topics as they expand awareness about what alien intelligence would be; growing people's awareness from a simple humanoid alien concept that looks like us with blue, green, or grey skin; through to intelligence so 'alien' to ours that we can't perceive it effectively anyway, only in shards or metaphorical echoes. I see metaphors everywhere if I choose to look at them. My cluttered desk is a metaphor for distractions; my leftover musical equipment, a metaphor for failed creative pursuits; my plain walls are a metaphor for boredom; the 15 tabs on my browser are a metaphor for split attention; and the noise of birds through a shuttered window is a metaphor for things I love to hear but shut out. All of this is happening at the same moment in my reality as I type this. Is that what the hypermind is like? where you perceive 20 different strands of interconnected communication you are arranging for your reality at the same time?

Leo I am so hyped about this alien mind course and am preparing for it already spiritually and mentally. Can you give a time window already? This alien mind sounds like an autistic mind on ecstasy.

A Wealth of Experiences After watching Leo's video on When the Left Goes too Far, I caught myself contemplating about the part where he talks about how it's a privilege to be left leaning because of the life experiences you've had and that you have enough material comforts to not be focused on brute survival, which is why you can focus on higher ideals like equality, gay rights, freedom of speech, mental health etc. And while I, as a child of immigrants who has parents who lived through much harsher life circumstances, I am very much aware of the later as I have to manage my ideals and sense of authenticity and autonomy with that of my stage blue/orange parents who have had very different life experiences, values, and opinions due to their upbringing and survival circumstances. I've had to learn, understand, and balance a lot of these types things and see how their upbrining contributes to their world views, and how they're not just simply crazy or dumb. However, while I'm aware of my privelege in survival as well as how being born in an upper middle class family in a major U.S. city plays a role in my experiences, I wanted to explore the wealth I have, not only from privilege, but from my life experiences. I have thought about this in the past prior to me thinking about it in this context. There have been many times over the past few months where I have really taken a moment to appreciate all of the places I've been and what I did there. My parents have screwed up a lot in my upbringing, but one thing they really got right was the emphasis they put on education, travel, and learning how to assimilate into different communities (side note: When I talk about assimilation, I'm not just talking about assimillating into White culture as a lot of children of immigrants feel pressure to in the U.S. Assimilation also means learning to adjust to things I encountered abroad with my family as well as the different communities I have encountered over the years). Visited 27/50 of the U.S. states Went to the major cities in Texas (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Galveston and you know damn well that I won’t forget the Alamo lol) Went to Vegas Visiting various national parks like Yosemite, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Devils Tower Visited the Christmas towns in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine and saw the Green Mountains (drove throughout Vermont) Went to California, saw LA, San Francisco, and drove on highway 1 Visited major cities such as NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore NYC: saw the empire state building, statue of liberty, mainly stayed in Queens and visited relatives there, visited a few universities I was considering, central park Boston: visited universities, the Kennedy presidential library, went to the Boston harbor and saw a little reenactment of the Boston Tea Party, enjoyed the public transportation system. Saw Gettysburg, various things in Philly DC: went to the White House, Congress, Smithsonian, National Mall, the Smithsonian saw cherry blossom season Baltimore: mainly went there for the Bengali cultural conference and also saw the harbor area and has some good seafood Went to the islands in Hawaii. Saw the volcanos and the beaches Went to Disney world as a kid Visited the forests of Arkansas and explored the caves (and saw too many confederate flags lol) Have gone to New Orleans a couple times, tried the food, and saw the French Quarters. Saw various places that preserved Native American History in New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma Went to Roswell New Mexico and saw the Area 51 alien museum and where they tested the atomic bombs Went skiing a couple times in New Mexico. India: Going to Bihar, staying in an ashram for 3 days, doing religious rituals with my parents for my grandparents, and seeing people keep hard copies of genealogical data Going to Kolkata every other year growing up + saw the Victoria Memorial, the Howrah Bridge, downtown Kolkata, and the Ganges River Saw the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, the entirety of Jaipur, Jantar Manter, and Delhi UAE: Visiting Dubai, the Burj Khalifa, went to the Dubai Mall, went to the beaches and the palm islands Bangladesh: Went to Sylhet, Dhaka, my ancestral home in Mymensingh, visited my dad’s friends and relatives Went to Costa Rica, and saw the rainforests + did a tour of San Juan Europe: Went to the UK: studied Indian history there, stayed in Oxford and London, saw the British Museum, Tower of London, London Eye, Brick Lane, the William Morris House, the Roman baths, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, Windsor Castle, and Parliament Went to France: Saw the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Versailles, and Remy the rat along with his whole family in the Paris bus stop. I also went to the beach and spent some time in Bordeaux. Went to Amsterdam: went on a cycling tour, went to a boat tour, the Ann Frank House, and out door market, and a place that was mainly populated by middle eastern immigrants. I also went to the red light district and went to a sex show which was interesting. Food Experiences: I have a thing where I try the Mexican food wherever I go as an experiement of sorts Tex Mex California Mexican food Mexican food in DC, the UK, and Vermont Mexican food in places like New Mexico and Galveston Salvadorian food Brazilian food: Brazilian Steak House Brazilian / Italian / Portuguese fusion food Costa Rican food Lots of chicken and plantains South East Asian Cuisine Thai: tried various noodle and curry dishes Malaysian: There is a restaurant that I really like in Dallas Vietnamese: I’m kinda basic but I’ve mainly tried Bahn Minh, Pho, and rice paper rolls East Asian Cuisine Chinese Take out Chinese Dim Sum Sushi: ranges from sashimi, various roll styles, sushi in fancy restaurants, and grocery store sushi Hibachi Ramen Kimbap Korean fried cheese Various East Asian snacks: sweet sandwiches, boba, various chip flavors, Korean fried chicken, anything with matcha, various cookies, mochi The French pastries in the bakeries next to the east asian grocery stores South Asian Cuisine A whole lifetime of Bengali home cooked meals and lessons on how to eat elish maach North Indian and South Indian food Various snack and junk foods Street food Indo Chinese food fusion foods including Korean+Indian and Mexican+Indian Mediterranean Food: Went to Italian, Greek, Turkish, North African, Palestinian,and Syrian places Had gyros, shawarmas, baba ganush, fatoush salad, tabouli salad, Greek salads, various lamb preparations Barbeque Texas BBQ North Carolina Kansas Australian German Korean Brazillian French food: croissants, crepes, the pizzas there, beignets, various cheeses and breads Dutch: Pancakes, stroopwaffles, fish, croquettes UK: fish and chips, meat pastries, Shepard’s pie, beans on toast, full English breakfast Maine lobster + Crab cakes + crab and lobster rolls Tried a lot of seafood in general: fish, lobster, crab, shrimp, crawfish, calamari, squid, mussels, oysters, caviar, fish curries, raw fish, fried The people I have met Grew up in an area of Dallas that is predominantly black and Hispanic with a good bit of African immigrants from the Caribbean, West Africa, and East Africa Would frequently go up to North Dallas where there is a lot of south, east, and south east Asian people Got exposed to a lot of Middle Eastern people through my friends and in college Know a few immigrants from Europe (mainly UK and Germany) as well as people who are connected to their Italian, Scottish, Irish, and English heritage Met some Eastern European people growing up and in college Met a few Jewish people as well as a couple Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Sikhs, and Jains. And of course, I know a good deal of Christians, Muslims, and Hindus who are religious to various degrees and practice various forms of each religion (Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Catholics, Sunni, Shia, Hindus from various castes in the north, south, and east India) Met exactly one person from Central Asia (he was from Kyrgyzstan) Political Ideology Liberals Southern Liberals / Liberals from red states East Coast Liberals Liberals from blue states Conservatives Rich conservatives Poor conservatives Southern conservatives (typically boomers and suburban Karens) Rural conservatives from various parts of the country (ranging from rural Texas, Arkansas, to even rural Maine) The occasional libertarian Leftists Let’s just say that there is a big difference between leftists from red states, mainly from the south and from Appalachia, and the leftists from places like NYC, Boston, LA, and San Francisco, and online leftists Fascists I met a full on Nazi once. I don’t know too many fascists but I do know people who have questionable views that connect to fascist talking points. People who are all over the place due to war trauma People who have survived a genocide, refugees, people who have been influenced by Hindu nationalism, Islamofascism, have a heavy negative bias towards a group like Jewish people or Pakistanis due to the war trauma that they or their family experienced.

The point is that you're making computations on different dimensions of reality/consciousness at the same time. Imagine that you have a software with Da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk Minds + Alien Intelligence... Then you download it into your body/mind system. How do you perceive reality? What's your point of reference to interpret experiences?

Why do you now think it's not realistic compared to the time directly after your first encounter with this transformation into alien mind? It would destroy consensus reality if you could do that in the slightest way.

I don't know why but for some reason I am very skeptical of Frank Yang, I don't wanna be negative on anyone but I think he's actually suffering from a common trap on the path of delusional self grandeur. I mean he's literally claiming to be as enlightened as the buddha despite not actually proving it in anyway. He claims to have transcended all human suffering. I love to seem him prove that. He's only be meditating for what six years. If you spend time around most monks none of them would claim what he claims despite them having 10x the experience he dose. What he dose have though is a following on YouTube so its prob hard to not fall into your own bullshit when everyone is parsing you. The reason why I feel this is because I have also slightly fell victim to this and everyone started to think I was some kind of buddha. Really what was happening is I was just good at convincing people I was enlightened than actually being enlightened. I still think there is something to be said for showing not saying, he just says a lot. If he really is as enlightened as he says he is do like a week long meditation without moving and live stream it. Also Leo is right, Dmt, 5meo ect if taken enough of blows conventional enlightenment out the water. I have reached high levels of awakening ect through meditation but if you take enough psychs it totally blows all that out the water. Humans are very limited in what they can awaken to, an alien or deity on the other hand can see through the very flaws of human spirituality and that's a good thing as there is so much to explore it never ends.

@Leo Gura Back then you wanted to seriously catch on camera how you transform into alien mind to share it with us. But it was not possible. What do you think now about this? Were you in delusion or is it still possible to catch this on camera? I know during my astral travel period 20 years that I seriously considered to catch my astral body on camera. I was not delusional, just concluded this from my experience. Now I still don't know if it's possible or not but probably mostly not. I am skeptical but open about this paranormal stuff.

Mmm, I found interesting correlations between insanity and alien intelligence in some of your blog posts. It comes back to the point of limits and breaking through some limits might feel like insanity.

The Importance Of A Philosophical Position Before one can do any serious philosophy, it is imperative that s/he understands one's own position regarding something as fundamental as how one thinks of the world of one's experience: Is it out there, happening independently from one's mind? Or is it in here 🧠, occurring through the mind's constructive capacity? Note that I'm not simply referring to the world, but to a world of one's own experience, rather. This is because I want to make it clear what it is we're dealing with here, as some of us, if not most, will be quick to argue that they are without a position in this matter because they are not philosophical. However, you do, in fact, have a position, even though you might claim to have no interest in philosophy or down right have nothing to do with it. This is because philosophers aren't doing anything alien to the plain man when doing philosophy, as with botany or geology or any other science, the philosopher only does what the plain man will do rather unsystematically. You have a position regarding the world of experience. Everyone does, for experience is quite a universal thing in the human world, wouldn't you say? No, it is merely a matter of you not having made a distinction of your position, yet. And thus making it distinguishable from, let's say, your neighbor's or any other philosopher's position which might contradict yours should you be given the chance to discuss it. Your position on the world of experience simply refers to how you understand your experience of the world as you experience it. For example, when you're waiting in a line to a food stand, do you regard this as a personal experience or an impersonal experience. You might be quick to think that this is obviously a personal experience because you're the only one who can understand what it is like for you in that particular moment of waiting. But some will understand it to be impersonal simply because s/he is not alone, everybody else who is in line is experiencing the same thing as s/he is – waiting for food. See, no one has asked you how you're understanding the experience of waiting in line, but you are already doing it anyway. And so it can be with your position of your world experience. How you understand your experience of the world is a position of its own philosophical merit. The only difference is that no one had asked you to express it. Without a self-realised position, it may be difficult to do some proper philosophy because you have no referential framework for considering other arguments. Some folks might argue that not having a position is good because it allows you to be open minded and free to develop your own unique philosophical position. Yes, that would be true if a person in fact did not have a position in this matter. However, experience is a universal thing, and chances are that a person would have long developed a position before s/he could even reflect on it. For instance, when it comes to the question of whether there is an external world or not – just the world that we know, the world of experience: I reject the position of an external world, that is, a world external to one's experience. And, I may not be so interested in figuring out which school of thought affirms the existence of such a world as much as I would be interested in learning more from the schools that don't. This can happen, yes. However, because I am interested in doing philosophy in a careful way, I am determined in learning from both positive and negative arguments, having realized my own understanding of the world.

Why do I feel fear when I see/imagine that video on the blog post? Almost like it’s so Alien and weird, it feels like I am not sure if I want to experience something like that

Imagine an alien who closely observes earth and has a life span of 500,000 years. The alien would see empires come and go, influential and uninfluential people live out their lives. There would be drama, love, endings and beginnings. This forum is little bit like that and Leo is the Alien since he is the only constant participant here.